The Sanaghagara Waterfall is a beautiful waterfall of the Kendujhar district

Kendujhar District

Kendujhar District, also known as Keonjhar District, is an administrative district of Orissa state in eastern India. The town of Kendujhar or Kendujhargarh is the district headquarters....

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India

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States and territories of India

India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories. The states and territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.-List of states and territories:...

 of Orissa

Orissa

Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...

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Location

Sanaghagara is located at a distance of 6 km from the district headquarters (Kendujhar

Kendujhar

Kendujhar is a city and a municipality in Kendujhar District in the Indian state of Orissa. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kendujhar district.-Geography:...

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Kendujhar District

Kendujhar District, also known as Keonjhar District, is an administrative district of Orissa state in eastern India. The town of Kendujhar or Kendujhargarh is the district headquarters....

. It is situated at a distance of 3 kilometers on the upstream of Badaghagara Waterfall

Badaghagara Waterfall

The Badaghagara Waterfall is a beautiful waterfall of the Kendujhar district in the Indian state of Orissa.-Location:Badaghagara is located at a distance of 9 km from the district headquarters of Kendujhar district. Being a perennial source of water, a dam has constructed on the downstream side...

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The falls

It is a perennial waterfall

Waterfall

A waterfall is a place where flowing water rapidly drops in elevation as it flows over a steep region or a cliff.-Formation:Waterfalls are commonly formed when a river is young. At these times the channel is often narrow and deep. When the river courses over resistant bedrock, erosion happens...

. The Machha Kandana, a small river, plunges from a height of 30.5 metres (100.1 ft) in two drops.

It is a small (100 ft. high) and beautiful waterfall, suitable for outing. The area is spread over 488 Ha. In a hilly tract with characteristic mixed deciduous and miscellaneous type of forest vegetation. The famous Sanaghagara waterfall with perennial stream adds to the natural beauty of this forest tract and attracts large number of visitors throughout the year. The area is an extremely undulating terrain with hills, pediments and a "V" shaped narrow valley. The hills and pediments are very steep and the rock formation is of Doleritic and Granitic

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

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It is one of the famous picnic spots of Kendujhar District. Thousands of tourists come to the place throughout the year.